I visited the gardens at Childwickbury on a softly sunny evening in early August 2011, the first summer after planting. While no-one was looking, the white flowered, silver leaved Lychnis made itself at home and started to self-seed about the place in a cottagey kind of way, with my client relishing in giving spare seedlings to gardening friends. Bees adore the late flowering maroon Allium sphaerocephalon and Cynara, whose robust thistle heads of purple...
This is garden development sets out to rejuvenate a farmhouse, cottage and barn united by a shared driveway and set amongst gorgeous rolling hills in rural Hertfordshire. Besotted by the landscape, I used soft and undulating shapes, reminiscent of the shapes on the horizon, to unite the new gardens to the wider environment. Click here to open the gallery.Powered by Cincopa wp content plugins solution for your website and Cincopa MediaSend for fil
This beautiful and elegant contemporary garden was designed autumn 2010 and construction started May 2011; it’s always an exciting time when the garden leaves the page to take shape and become reality. Here’s the original concept illustration, concept design and master plan. Click here to open the gallery.Powered by Cincopa wp content plugins solution for your website and Cincopa MediaSend for file...
In January 2010, I won a competition judged by Andew Duff, Director of the Inchbald School of Design, the RHS Chelsea Flower Show manager, Alex Denman and Dr. Micheal Parmar from The Dalerush Workshop. It was to design a trade stand for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show 2010 for The Dalerush Workshop who make beautiful, contemporary furniture. My design stood out ‘for its boldness and originality packaged within strong shapes and colours’. My...
The house is a new build set amongst established gardens and the brief for this garden was for soft, gentle curves and naturalistic planting. Click here to open the gallery.Powered by Cincopa wp content plugins solution for your website and Cincopa MediaSend for file transfer.
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My name is Amanda Shipman and I’m a qualified garden designer with a busy design practice in Hertfordshire and a tutor at the Inchbald School of Design, London.
I love designing gardens and work closely with my clients to create beautiful, interesting and stimulating gardens, tailoring the space to reflect their lifestyle.
Learn More“Amanda has excellent ideas and produced a deceptively simple, yet skilful design which we were delighted with. She works to exacting professional standards and is highly efficient and thorough, with an eye for the smallest detail. She is a pleasure to deal with and her interpersonal skills facilitated a satisfying outcome, both with the planning authorities and our main contractor. All in all, we would have no hesitation in highly recommending Amanda’s services.”
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